Who needs a computer?

[barrk]

An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor.
The manager
there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section:Floors, sweeping
and
cleaning).

After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage,
$5.15 an
hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to
complete and
tell you where to report for work on your first day.

Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an
e-mail address.
To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you
virtually don't exist
and can therefore hardly expect to be employed.

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in
his wallet,
he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket.

Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100%
profit.
Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost
$100
before going to sleep that night.

And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling
tomatoes.
Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his
profits quickly.
After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of
tomatoes,
only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to
support his
expanding business.

By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up
trucks and
manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling
tomatoes.

Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some
life insurance.
Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit
his new
circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser
asks him for his
e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned,
"What, you don't
have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without
the
Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if
you had
been connected to the Internet from the very start!"

After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of
course! I would be
a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"

Moral of this story:
1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.

2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
millionaire.

3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to
becoming a
janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.

4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to
the cleaners
by Microsoft.

[Ianpbaker]

very good

[chenko]

*simon runs off to get some tomatos* .........but me dont like tomatos

[chrisjk]

There is a small problem with that story - if the unemployed man bought those tomatoes, then sold them on at 100% profit - why did anyone buy them from him when they could get them for half the price at the same supermarket he got them!?!?

[SurfDemon]

Te Hee Hee.

[paulw]

You've misunderstood - he didn't sell the tomatoes - he licensed them....

P.

[SurfDemon]

Maybe he was trying to kethup with Bill Gates....


Oh, I kill me.....

SD

[parksie]

Hehe

[chrismitchell]

Chris goes and gets many boxes of Tomatoes and then proceeds to throw them at M$ HQ... Invites people to join.... If you hit the **** Gates you win a fully licenced copy of Windows ME!!!

[parksie]

Nooo!!!! Windows ME!!!!! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!

ANYTHING BUT THAT

[chrisjk]

I'd rather win a fully-licenced hole in the head

[SteveCRM]

Muahahaha whle you guys make more competition for each other, I'll sell ORANGES!!!!!

[Jethro]

Originally posted by paulw
You've misunderstood - he didn't sell the tomatoes - he licensed them....

P.

With the option in a few years of updating the tomatoes 1.2 license to Bottled tomatoe Jucie 3.4 which will work on any pasta purchased from his company. Of course you will need to drive to one of his stores to wait for a few hours to get the vital saucepan patch sp5. By that stage he will no longer support tomatoes 1.2.

Then the Justice dept will get involved and.....

[Kzin]

Originally posted by chrisjk
There is a small problem with that story - if the unemployed man bought those tomatoes, then sold them on at 100% profit - why did anyone buy them from him when they could get them for half the price at the same supermarket he got them!?!?

Soooo . . . Bill Gates would be *MUCH* richer if he sold tomatoes

Thinking about it though there may be a business op in buying back the propetry leases for Bay region dot coms and turning them back to fruit growing . . .

Katie - I have a packet of Tomatoe seeds in the cupboard - do you want to invest in the next great expansion boom (seed capital )